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Help, my PPP won't stop dialing (RH 4.0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Waldo)
Fri Nov 1 08:36:42 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 08:33:21 -0500
From: Paul Waldo <pww@ssds.com>
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Does this mean that one has to run netcfg everytime you want to connect
and disconnect? Argh!
> Subject: Help, my PPP won't stop dialing (RH 4.0)
>
> I managed to get RH 4.0 installed with a minimum of
> problems. The other night I used the network configuration
> and modem configuration tools to configure my PPP
> connection. Now, when I reboot Linux, PPP starts
> attempting to dial my internet provider immediately.
> How do I keep this from happening? Does it have
> something to do with other daemons that are being
> brought up by default (I believe sendmail is one of
> the installed defaults).
>
> -----------
>
> I had the same problem, until i realize than ppp0 was configured to startup at boot time !
> Just go into your net config, and put a "no" instead of "at boot".
>
> Then, you will have to manually do "activate" to initiate your ppp connection.
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